Kathy's POV
Just like in the movies, as Carson and I were hastily making our way to the living room, so were Morris and Adelaide. They both look rustled about something."What just happened?" Morris asked, slightly panting. "A car just screeched out of here, what just happened?" He demanded again."Well, that is exactly what we want to know at the moment, Morris." Carson clipped, making his way to the window. He paused, trying to think of something. Seemed a light bulb went off in his head because he immediately started running upstairs at such speed I knew I wasn't the only one afraid he was going to miss a step and come tumbling down, but he didn't."It can't be that bad, can it?" Adelaide asked Morris, who knowingly ignored her. I would say he didn't hear it, but from the way he pointedly looked at her—no, no he glared at her—I would say he pretty much heard her and decided to ignore her. Okay, so they were having a fight. So what? People fought alKaty's Point of View.Something about the way he said the words had me frightened as it had me excited. Carson Cooper? Carson Cooper! Everyone in this room knew what that man was capable of. A dangerous arms dealer and for some reason, they thought I could take this under my belt. Maybe I wasn't going unnoticed after all.A throat clearing came from the other corner of the room. Johnson smiled small as he'd seen that he had in fact brought attention to himself."Okay. You might think this is me being stereotypical, but... Boss, you can't possibly be serious about her." He said. If I could guess correctly, which I always did, I would say he was trying so hard to swallow the shock that I was chosen instead of him. It annoyed him. The more he tried to hide under the painful smile betrayed him. So did his grip on his own. It was cracked. "Katy is... Fast. She is great, if not the best. But for someone as dangerous as Carson Cooper, we are going to need someone who could fight their way ou
Katy's Point of View. "You can't really tell me that you're still sulking over everything that happened. You know this operation could end with me dead, right? You still want this round?"Jackson sighed as we made our way to the airport. He wouldn't even stare into the rearview mirror. At this point, staring at my face annoyed him."If you know that you might not return, then why are you still choosing to pursue this?" His question stung. Now it was my turn to look away."You would take this if you were in my shoes."He gave a dry laugh. "Oh, so now you're trying to guilt trip me, huh? I see you're tired of being nonchalant.""I'm just doing my job. Trust me when I say it has nothing to do with the unnecessary feud we've both been allowing to go on between us for the past five years.""Yeah, right." The way he said that made it quite obvious it was nothing but a bluff to him."Look, if you're going to be my backup, we need to squash whatever this is, at least for now.""I kind of ha
Katy's Point of View. His office was really cold. I knew shivering was something we were supposed to repel against. Mrs Smith couldn't be more clear in training. Good thing I was not a spy. If a naive and quite comedic housekeeper was what would keep my identity a secret, then I was all in."Are you alright?" He asked, peering over me. I nodded and quickly moved to the chair that faced his own seat. He was tall. Too tall if I was being honest. Crazy tall. Why hadn't they mentioned anything about his height?"You may sit, miss...""Philips. Josie Philips." I squeaked out, falling behind on the chair.He paused, staring at me for a while before sitting down ruggedly in his chair. Stroking his chin, he finally broke the silence. "You say it like you're not very sure.""I'm not quite sure what you mean.""You said your name with a hint of uncertainty.""Yeah, only because you won't stop gawking at me." Woah. Why on earth could I not control my tongue since today?He didn't say anything.
Katy's Point of View."You know as we're touring, it's only normal that the both of us talk a little right?" Morris asked. I had no idea what changed Adelaide's mind but I was glad she wasn't the one giving me the tour anymore. At least Morris wouldn't sweetly threaten me. I searched my mind for a comeback."We're talking, are we not?""Yeah, well. But we've been talking about how beautiful the Lily bushes are for thirty minutes straight. And you're not even into the conversation. You look like you're trying so hard to focus. Homesick?"The agency was my home, I guess I did miss being myself. I had to start wearing funny wears now. No fun talk. No loud makeup. That was a lot to take in all at once. "Yeah, I guess."He nodded slowly and then smiled sympathetically. "Give it a week or two, you'll start getting used to this place. It is secluded but trust me when I say it is fun."I chuckled. "Is that what you tell yourself?"He paused, then chuckled too. "Yeah. But it does work. To just
Katy's Point of View.I would appear rude if I said I didn't want to be here. And I was tempted to say it anyway. I didn't want to be here. But when I suggested to Morris that I would rather have dinner in the comfort of my bedroom, his reply shook me to the teeth. My belly grumbled, clearly disagreeing with the repercussions of missing dinner at dinnertime."The thing is... You miss a meal here, you can forget about eating at all. It's a kind of a rule.""Well, how is he sure that you don't sneak the food from the quarters to your bedroom? He's not even there. It doesn't make sense."He chuckled a little. "We all eat at the dining table. It's not a hidden thing. I'm serious, you were not briefed at the interview about it.""Wait, so you're telling me that the moment we're called in right now to eat, we are actually going to sit down with the boss and eat with him?" Interesting.He laughed this time around. "You should see your eyes. They're so huge." He nodded still, "You act like it
Carson's Point of View."You're the boss, if you don't want her among your crew you could always tell her to go. It's not like she's going to strike you or anything." Abel said, his voice booming from the iPad. Morris chuckled softly, pouring himself a drink. He knew his brother too well."Shhh. Don't draw attention to this office. You're loud. I'm still trying to get a hang of this boss thing.""You have been on this thing for a few years, you should know the drill by now.""Oh, yeah? What, if I may ask little brother, is the drill?" Morris asked, carefully sitting to avoid spilling his drink."Be so strict with them that the mention of your name scares them to death.""This is why I don't come to you for advice." I turned to Morris, who looked like he was too deep in his thoughts to argue with his brother like they usually did. "Morris, how on earth did you deal with him for years?""He's my brother. I have my ways."I sighed. "I hope the agency's doing well? I don't want you gettin
Katy's Point of View.I stared at her for a while, not knowing what to say. I didn't want to jump to a conclusion. I knew that if I did, she would definitely know that I was doing a little bit of a federal job myself."Nail him, how?" My heartbeats blasted into my ear."Make him fall in love with me.""Oh. Is that what you meant?" I wondered out loud.She frowned. "What did you think I meant?""Nothing serious, I guess. I thought, you meant he was into shady businesses and you needed my help to bring him to the authorities." That would be nice, wouldn't it? Nailing the boss under a week that I show up. I would be the talk of the agency. In the food sense.Adelaide laughed, washing her hands. "You have a wild imagination." Well, it was true. It was also one of the reasons the agency thought I had potential, until after three months of working my brains off to actually prove myself. I was a bit nauseous just thinking about the training process.Speaking of difficulties, how did I go fro
Katy's Point of View."Um..." It almost sounded automatic as Morris and I uttered it at the same time. Adelaide walked in with a curious smile on her face. Seriously, was there a time when this girl wasn't smiling?"Are you alright? Both of you." She asked after a few seconds. "Tell me what?"I stared at Morris. I didn't think I had ever seen him so unnerved before. This was the time to come clean and if he couldn't do it, then I would do it for him. For all we cared, Adelaide wasn't really in love with Carson. Maybe, she was just scared of ending up alone and for some reason, she thought making her boss fall in love with her was the easiest way out. Seriously, don't fault me, I'd been reading too many short stories before this operation.As if Morris knew what I was thinking, he slightly shook his head the moment I stared at him. I immediately turned back to Adelaide.
Kathy's POVJust like in the movies, as Carson and I were hastily making our way to the living room, so were Morris and Adelaide. They both look rustled about something."What just happened?" Morris asked, slightly panting. "A car just screeched out of here, what just happened?" He demanded again."Well, that is exactly what we want to know at the moment, Morris." Carson clipped, making his way to the window. He paused, trying to think of something. Seemed a light bulb went off in his head because he immediately started running upstairs at such speed I knew I wasn't the only one afraid he was going to miss a step and come tumbling down, but he didn't."It can't be that bad, can it?" Adelaide asked Morris, who knowingly ignored her. I would say he didn't hear it, but from the way he pointedly looked at her—no, no he glared at her—I would say he pretty much heard her and decided to ignore her. Okay, so they were having a fight. So what? People fought al
Jackson's POV"Wake up! For crying out loud, wake up, Jack!" I heard Charmaine whisper-scream in my ear. "Wake up before they have us killed." She said and although my neck stung from the pain the dart was meant to cause as an after-effect, those words rose me."What?" I asked, lifting my eyes to look at her. She looked scared. Beautiful. But terrified. Her hair was a glorious mess and her lipstick was smudged from lips to chin. That image wouldn't have troubled me so much if her hands weren't tightly bound behind her with white ropes."You have been sleeping for the last two hours. How were you so comfortable in such a state?"I glared at her light mockery. "I was not comfortable. Besides it's not like I decided to take a nap here, the dart gun did all that by itself.""Yeah, well, we're in a moving vehicle." She announced, trying to twist her wrist out of the grip of the rope."What?" As if to confirm what she'd just said, the vehicle shook causing us both to shake rather painfully.
Jackson's POV"I don't know how you're going to act after I tell you this, but I want to know. It's better that you know." I said, making my way further into the garden. I didn't need to turn to tell that those words scared the heck out of her. I wasn't planning on telling her anything. But the truth was that she needed to know. She needed to know. If I was to be present in my kid's life then she had to know everything. I finally turned as I made my way to the edge of the small rod house that made the garden look more beautiful than it actually was."That's not a way to start a conversation, Jack. You're really scaring me right now. What is the problem?""I have something I need to tell you."She scoffed. "That's not helping. Did you kill someone?""No!""Is someone after you?" She asked, her eyes wide. I shook my head. Well, Verde would be in a matter of days, so... That wasn't exactly an accurate answer but I was about to scare her. I merely came here
Morris's POVI had been sure the door to my bedroom had been closed. I knew because I had even made it up to the worry of locking the door behind me with the golden keys Abel had specially made for me. But as I rounded the stairs, I found the door slightly open. Curious and immediately alert, I pulled my gun up and slowly walked to the door. The closer I got, the clearer the sound of intrusion. If it was one of Verde's goons, I was going to... No, I couldn't afford to shoot that person. Civilians were in the house. Adelaide was in the house. I was supposed to be finding a way to actually make things a bit lighter for her when I tell her about the party, or should I say the suicide mission we would all be walking into, rather than frightening her more.I
Carson's POV "Should I be scared that you asked to speak to me alone?" Katy asked, a bright smile on her face as she settled on my desk, ignoring the empty chair opposite my chair. "Well, you make it sound like the both of us can't have a moment to ourselves without a problem looming about." "Well, if it sounded that way, then I'm very sorry. You just seemed tensed like something was on your mind. And you're kind of making me scared. Is the house bugged or what?" I squinted at her. "Why would the house be bugged?" I asked and she shrugged. "I don't know, I only asked that because it would be better than having a bomb big enough to blow us up in the house. And before you ask why I'm suddenly talking about a bomb, I might remind you that I have been shot at before." "Fair enough," I said, thinking of the best way to say what I wanted to say without sounding selfish. Normally, if worse had come forward, I'd be addressing both she and Charmaine together, but luckily for me, Charmaine
Carson's POVWuty each step that I took to the house, my heart hammered. Verde Michi was in my house! In my house! Verde?! Oh, if only I could just get something that would finally get this man behind bars and leave him there. I could tell from the way Morris kept giving me sideways glance, that he must have been thinking the same thing."What the heck is going on? I have no idea what is going on here and half of me would be really thankful if you just told me.""I'd be lying if I said I knew. He just showed up here. He came in the cheapest car u have ever seen him. If you ask me I would say he's trying to reverse psychology thing because he must be one of the richest thieves alive. I wonder what he's doing with the car he came here with."That is not even the point. He knows where we live, that should bother you more than anything. Somehow, he knows where we are. That means that he's either come in full vengeance for the Mary Potter or t
Katy's POVI raised my head from the cup of coffee I carefully cradled between my hands and found Adelaide watching me closely, her eyes squinted. Her face frowned."What is it?" I asked and Adelaide shrugged."You do know coffee is for drinking right? I don't really know what you think it's for but definitely not for staring." She said, wiping the island. When I didn't say anything, she continued. "Are you going to tell me the reason you're moping holes into the kitchen or not? What's on your mind""What makes you think u have something on my mind? I'm just practicing a new nature called 'quietness', that's not a problem now, is it?""You look worried. What's the problem?" Maybe it was me, but I was a little bit certain the sarcasm had fallen from her voice. When I looked up, I knew for sure that she wasn't being sarcastic."I'm supposed to believe you're being genuinely concerned about me?""Shouldn't I be?" She ask
Carson's POVI had no idea how I was going to break the news to her. But I had to, one way or the order."What's on your mind?" She asked, the minute she walked into the office and closed the door behind her, then turned around to face me. She walked further into the room, her hands were tucked at the back pocket of her jean."What makes you think I have something on my mind?" I asked and she chuckled softly at what I had intended to be a firm tone, hoping it would quicken this up."You're chewing on your own, love." She said. Maybe I had been chewing in my own but for a while all I could think about was the word she had just refered to me as: love. I shook my head, trying not to smile like a teen boy talking cowardly and stupidly to his first crush.I finally smiled a controlled smile. "I chew my pen whenever I'm nervous.""Ooh, I know one more thing about you. Score, go me!" She said with a bright smile, throwing her hands
Morris's POV"So, you're saying we have hundred percent access to the device now?" Carson asked, almost spilling his coffee from excitement. Abel shook his head."I'm saying I managed to crack it a little bit. If the Mary Potter was do easy to get into like that then it wouldn't be as wanted as it is. It's a chip that Verde is making for fellow billionaires like himself to be able to take and hide digital stuff from eyes. In the hands of anyone, it's a completely empty memory card but to me and other tech gurus, it's a chip that contains all the most powerful message ever. From the tiny bugs and errors that I spotted in it, even though it's pretty genius, I'd say it's the very first out if a million more they plan to create. It's a sample and it will break backs. So I think we ought to be smart with what we have." Abel narrated as his fingers came quickly down the keyboards."What do you mean when you say it's going to break backs?" I asked and